The Future of Cognitive Neuroscience: Beyond Prefrontal Cortex,

Persistent Activity & Working Memory

Featuring:

The Prefrontal Cortex: From Bench to Bedside

Mark D’Esposito, MD

Professor, Neuroscience & Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation to Act

Ann Graybiel, PhD

Institute Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; & Investigator, McGovern

Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emergence of Functional Modularity in the Neocortex:

The Case of Persistent Activity

Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD

Professor, Neural Science, New York University    

Cognitive and Movement in Parkinson’s Disease

Michele Basso, PhD

Professor, Biological Structure, Physiology, and Biophysics,

University of Washington                      - and -

Testing Models of Persistent Activity:

Bridging Classical and Novel Approaches

Sufia Ahmad

Graduate Student, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences

and Ophthalmology (A. Huk’s Lab)        - and -

Alex Huk, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Ophthalmology;

and Director, Fuster Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA  

Registration - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdO9Xd400NVp7Ta9vlYKto7G7wGwciBva2_tYlfCuTvtiLybA/viewform

Contact – Alex Huk – AlexHuk@g.ucla.edu   

Website – https://bri.ucla.edu/calendar/

132 NRB

Endothelial Calcium Signaling Microdomains in Obesity and Hypertension

Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD

Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics; and Director,

Graduate Studies in Physiology, University of Virginia

Contact – Rosemary Portal – cri@mednet.ucla.edu

Website – https://medschool.ucla.edu/events/cardiovascular-seminar

73-105 CHS

Casual Mapping of Human Brain Function to Brain Circuits

Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,

Harvard Medical School

Zoom Registration –

https://uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqde-hrDMtEtP03GAF5ntH1PkEY4vG0CDF#/registration

Contact – tnt@mednet.ucla.edu 

AI and the Healthcare Safety Net

Omolola (Lola) Ogunyemi, PhD, FACMI

Professor, Preventative & Social Medicine; and Director, Center

for Biomedical Informatics, Charles Drew University

Zoom Registration –

https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-Gprj8uHNDMxqiRRD2MQZN1S4kVEu8U#/registration

Contact – Eloy Lopez – eloylopez@lifesci.ucla.edu

159 Boyer and Zoom

Dissertation Defense

PhD Candidate:  Elena Coley-O’Rourke

Mentor:  Elaine Hsiao

Title:  The maternal microbiome modifies effects of protein undernutrition on offspring neurobehavioral development
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 30 at 10:00am

In-Person Location:  Boyer Hall, Room 159

Via Zoom:  https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98265936725